Renovating, renovating, renovating…

A mayor part of my life – apart from losing weight  – centers around Ronny’s new apartment at the moment. Basically I spend my weekends and the time after work scratching wallpaper off walls, vacuum clean dust off the floors or plaster holes in walls. I am actually dreaming about that stuff. When we were removing the wallpapers, I was still scratching the walls while laying in bed, about to fall asleep. Whenever I closed my eyes, I kept reliving the hours of scratching.

Now, the only thing that still needs to be done is coloring the walls, installing the new laminate flooring, tile the kitchen and hallway floor and get the new wallpaper on the walls. Ah, of course we also still need to move all the furniture this weekend.

Today I don’t have to help since the laminate flooring requires only few helpers.

Here are some picture of the recent weeks…

This is the house Ronny moves into. The windows in the upper, left corner are bathroom and the kitchen window.

The kitchen after Herbert extended the walls of the living room. He added stones and build a wall to make the kitchen entrance smaller and offer more space on the walls, so that Ronny can position a cabinet to the left.

Next step in remodelling the kitchen, the walls after being rendered. Herbert has only moved to Germany 4 month ago after living in Austria all his life. Despite the fact that I haven’t known him for very long, I really like him, he is such a friendly soul. He is engaged to his girlfriend Isabelle now, whom he met only two month ago. Their love story is so sweet, he met her at the main station in Bonn and confessed his emotions for her by giving her a letter. So sweet.

Herbert and me after the wall was finished.

The next step in remodelling the kitchen, changing the position of the water pipes and therefore removing the grout. The person to the left is Ronny’s father, who visited last weekend (he lives some 500 kilometer away) and helped with the electric wiring. He stayed the entire weekend and took over the site management and assigning the chores. 😉

Dusty, Herbert was drilling the holes in the kitchen for new electric wiring that needed to be channelled through the walls. I am still not sure I understand the exact concept of all the wiring channels.

Ronny installing the electric cables in the walls which were later concealed by plaster. Once we are finished, the flat will not only be renovated but actually refurbished. Actually the wiring was so off the deep end that it needed to be renewed, the wiring was so old that it would have been negligent to leave it untouched.

 Onur to the left, Bane and Ronny working in the bedroom.

Kevin, painting the ceiling in the office – yes Ronny will have an office. 😉

Torsten and Ronny in the hallway.

After work and renovating, on my way back home, which is only a two minutes ride by the way.

Okay, I guess this is it for today, picture overkill. 😉

All is well…

I-am-on-the-waggon-on-the-waggon-on-the-waggon!!!